Stupid Newbie Disaster
Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu)
ubuntu at kaiser-linux.li
Sat Nov 19 10:07:44 UTC 2005
Hello John
John W Redelfs wrote:
> So, now back to your problem. What happens if you start (boot) your PC.
> Does it try to start X and tell you after that it can't do it and your
> are back in the command line?
>
>
> Yeah, that is what is happening.
>
> If so, You just have the wrong nVidia driver for your kernel. I had this
> several times in the past, because I did some stupied things :-)
>
>
> So if I rm the nVidia stuff, I'll be able to boot back into X-windows?
> Where do I find the nVidia stuff to remove it? Maybe I can find it with
> grep or find or something. Does the shell default with that stuff in
> the path? I'll give it a try and see what happens. I hope I don't dig
> myself in deeper. --JWR
Please, tell me what you did to install the nVidia driver! And send a
copy of the xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf).
Regards, Thomas
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